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US YouTuber Visits "New Delhi's Poorest Slum" Kusumpur Pahari, Internet Calls His Video "Moving"
A US YouTuber's video of visiting Kusumpur Pahari in Delhi is going viral on social media. In the clip, the YouTuber explores different parts of the slum and shares his candid experience of visiting a place different from the ones he usually visits.
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BJP Releases 'Sankalp Patra' For Delhi Municipal Polls, Underlines Vision
BJP's MCD poll manifesto, promising flats to slum dwellers, cheap meals for Rs 5 through 50 Annapurna Rasois, free bicycles to girl students, 1,000 permanent Chhath ghats, new cow shelters and development of "happiness" areas, was released today.
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This Is How Much Flats Handed Over By PM In Delhi Today Cost To Build
The cost of construction of each of the flats allotted on Wednesday to eligible households under the government's in situ rehabilitation of Bhumiheen Camp's slum dwellers in New Delhi is nearly Rs 11.41 lakh.
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PM Modi Hands Over Keys To Over 3,000 New Homes For Poor In Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated 3,024 newly constructed flats for the Economically Weaker Sections in Delhi as part of a slum rehabilitation project.
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Delhi Slum Gets A Colourful Makeover With Rainbow Murals
A New Delhi slum has been given a colourful makeover thanks to a street artist collective, drawing art lovers and selfie-snappers to a rundown area that they would never normally visit.
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Will Future Megacities Be A Marvel? New Delhi Suggests Otherwise
The effects of unbridled urbanization are inescapable in New Delhi. Smog blankets landmarks like India Gate in winter, delaying flights at the airport due to poor visibility. Traffic jams are part of the daily routine and slums abut New Delhi's luxury hotels and private mansions, testifying to a growing wealth divide and chronic housing shortage.
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Delhi's Last Elephants Await Marching Orders
The mighty Heera marched through a crowded slum chewing bamboo, oblivious that freedom from life as one of Delhi's last six elephants at work could be just around the corner. After years of pressure from activists who accuse the animals' owners of flouting wildlife regulations by keeping them in a city, authorities have ordered the seizure of the e...
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"Like Living In Hell": Delhi Slum Drowning In Plastic Waste
A sea of plastic spreads through Taimur Nagar slum in the national capital, a symbol of the grime and waste that makes New Delhi one of the world's most polluted cities. The plastic bottles, bags, food wrappers and other detritus have gushed out of a drain that ends in the shanty, leaving stinking sewer water clogging the roads. India is the focus ...
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Never Thought I Could Give My Kids A Pucca House: Delhi Slum Dweller
New Delhi: It was a dream come true for 350 slum dwellers in Delhi as the state government allotted them flats on Monday. The slum dwellers, who had been living in the slums of Nehru Camp east Delhi’s Patparganj areas for decades, had an emotional meltdown when Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia gave them allotment letters for the one-bed room...
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Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari Spends Night With Slum Dwellers
Delhi BJP chief and lawmaker Manoj Tiwari spent New Year's night with the people of a slum in south Delhi's Inderpuri area, where members of his party's digital team expounded on the benefits of mobile banking to the residents.
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"Surrounded By Police Like We Are Criminals": Kathputli Colony Residents Resist Eviction
By Rina Chandran New Delhi: Hundreds of residents in a New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony are resisting eviction by city officials and police in the third such protest this month, as anger mounts over a shortfall in housing for the urban poor, campaigners said. Evictions began this week in New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony, home to 3,500 families of stree...
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Delhi's Slum Children Portray The City Through Photographs
Children living in the slums in New Delhi are showing what it is to live in the city through a series of photographs which they have clicked.
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In Delhi's 'Puppeteer Colony', Stalemate Strings Residents To Poverty
Tucked away from the glare of visitors to India's capital, just 6 km from the manicured lawns of the Parliament building, thousands of its citizens live in the most unliveable of conditions, passing their days surrounded by filth, garbage, open defecation, and little room to live.
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3 Children Die As Fire Burns Down Homes In Delhi's New Usmanpur
Three children, including a six-month-old boy, were killed and another child was injured when a fire broke out in a slum cluster in Delhi's New Usmanpur area.
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Infant, Two Minors Killed In Slum Fire In Delhi
Three children of a family, including a six-month-old boy, died and another was severely injured in a fire that broke out at a slum cluster in northeast Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said today.
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US YouTuber Visits "New Delhi's Poorest Slum" Kusumpur Pahari, Internet Calls His Video "Moving"
A US YouTuber's video of visiting Kusumpur Pahari in Delhi is going viral on social media. In the clip, the YouTuber explores different parts of the slum and shares his candid experience of visiting a place different from the ones he usually visits.
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BJP Releases 'Sankalp Patra' For Delhi Municipal Polls, Underlines Vision
BJP's MCD poll manifesto, promising flats to slum dwellers, cheap meals for Rs 5 through 50 Annapurna Rasois, free bicycles to girl students, 1,000 permanent Chhath ghats, new cow shelters and development of "happiness" areas, was released today.
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This Is How Much Flats Handed Over By PM In Delhi Today Cost To Build
The cost of construction of each of the flats allotted on Wednesday to eligible households under the government's in situ rehabilitation of Bhumiheen Camp's slum dwellers in New Delhi is nearly Rs 11.41 lakh.
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PM Modi Hands Over Keys To Over 3,000 New Homes For Poor In Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated 3,024 newly constructed flats for the Economically Weaker Sections in Delhi as part of a slum rehabilitation project.
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Delhi Slum Gets A Colourful Makeover With Rainbow Murals
A New Delhi slum has been given a colourful makeover thanks to a street artist collective, drawing art lovers and selfie-snappers to a rundown area that they would never normally visit.
-
Will Future Megacities Be A Marvel? New Delhi Suggests Otherwise
The effects of unbridled urbanization are inescapable in New Delhi. Smog blankets landmarks like India Gate in winter, delaying flights at the airport due to poor visibility. Traffic jams are part of the daily routine and slums abut New Delhi's luxury hotels and private mansions, testifying to a growing wealth divide and chronic housing shortage.
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Delhi's Last Elephants Await Marching Orders
The mighty Heera marched through a crowded slum chewing bamboo, oblivious that freedom from life as one of Delhi's last six elephants at work could be just around the corner. After years of pressure from activists who accuse the animals' owners of flouting wildlife regulations by keeping them in a city, authorities have ordered the seizure of the e...
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"Like Living In Hell": Delhi Slum Drowning In Plastic Waste
A sea of plastic spreads through Taimur Nagar slum in the national capital, a symbol of the grime and waste that makes New Delhi one of the world's most polluted cities. The plastic bottles, bags, food wrappers and other detritus have gushed out of a drain that ends in the shanty, leaving stinking sewer water clogging the roads. India is the focus ...
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Never Thought I Could Give My Kids A Pucca House: Delhi Slum Dweller
New Delhi: It was a dream come true for 350 slum dwellers in Delhi as the state government allotted them flats on Monday. The slum dwellers, who had been living in the slums of Nehru Camp east Delhi’s Patparganj areas for decades, had an emotional meltdown when Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia gave them allotment letters for the one-bed room...
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Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari Spends Night With Slum Dwellers
Delhi BJP chief and lawmaker Manoj Tiwari spent New Year's night with the people of a slum in south Delhi's Inderpuri area, where members of his party's digital team expounded on the benefits of mobile banking to the residents.
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"Surrounded By Police Like We Are Criminals": Kathputli Colony Residents Resist Eviction
By Rina Chandran New Delhi: Hundreds of residents in a New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony are resisting eviction by city officials and police in the third such protest this month, as anger mounts over a shortfall in housing for the urban poor, campaigners said. Evictions began this week in New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony, home to 3,500 families of stree...
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Delhi's Slum Children Portray The City Through Photographs
Children living in the slums in New Delhi are showing what it is to live in the city through a series of photographs which they have clicked.
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In Delhi's 'Puppeteer Colony', Stalemate Strings Residents To Poverty
Tucked away from the glare of visitors to India's capital, just 6 km from the manicured lawns of the Parliament building, thousands of its citizens live in the most unliveable of conditions, passing their days surrounded by filth, garbage, open defecation, and little room to live.
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3 Children Die As Fire Burns Down Homes In Delhi's New Usmanpur
Three children, including a six-month-old boy, were killed and another child was injured when a fire broke out in a slum cluster in Delhi's New Usmanpur area.
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Infant, Two Minors Killed In Slum Fire In Delhi
Three children of a family, including a six-month-old boy, died and another was severely injured in a fire that broke out at a slum cluster in northeast Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said today.
